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Flag of the German Empire

The black-white-red flag of the German Empire, officially adopted in 1892.

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The black-white-red flag combines the colors of Prussia and the Hanseatic League with those of the Holy Roman Empire.[1] It became the national flag of the German Empire in 1892 under Wilhelm II.[2]

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The 1867 North German Confederation constitution states: "Die Flagge der Kriegs- und Handelsmarine ist schwarz-weiß-roth"[4] The 1871 German Empire constitution repeats the same wording for the flag of the war and merchant marine.[10] A 2020 Der Spiegel article notes that historian Eckart Conze says the flag stands for rejection of the current political system: parliamentarism, liberal representative democracy, and its elites.[11] The same article reports that neo-Nazis often use the imperial flag because using the swastika flag is punishable.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Flag of the German Empire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "A Third Reich, as I See It": Politics, Society, and Private Life in the Diaries of Nazi Germany, 1933-1939", Indiana University Press, 4 April 2023; "Landsknechte auf dem Weg ins Dritte Reich?", Brill Schöningh, 15 July 2019 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Flag of the German Empire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Federal Ministry of the Interior, "Federal flag", Domestic Protocol Office of the Federal Government (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Flag of the German Empire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Constitution of the North German Confederation", documentArchiv.de, 27 June 1867 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. "Constitution of the North German Confederation", documentArchiv.de, 27 June 1867. facts only, no text reused. documentarchiv.de
  5. Wikipedia, "Flag of the German Empire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Constitution of the German Empire", documentArchiv.de, 16 April 1871; Federal Ministry of the Interior, "Federal flag", Domestic Protocol Office of the Federal Government; "Weimar Republic", HISTORY (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Flag of the German Empire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Zama, "Reichswehr", Never Was, 2021-05-16 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Flag of the German Empire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "ÖNB-ALEX – Deutsches Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I 1867–1945", Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; "ÖNB-ALEX – Deutsches Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I 1867–1945", Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; Statement by Hermann Göring, quoted in the (17 September 1935) (in German) (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Flag of the German Empire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Leffers, "Why right-wing demonstrators wave Imperial and Wirmer flags", Der Spiegel, 2020-09-04; "Imperial German Flag" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Flag of the German Empire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rabbow, "Schwarz-Rot-Gold: Einheit in Freiheit", Der Flaggenkurier [The Flag Courier], 2007, p. 41–45 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. "Constitution of the German Empire", documentArchiv.de, 16 April 1871. facts only, no text reused. documentarchiv.de
  11. Leffers, "Why right-wing demonstrators wave Imperial and Wirmer flags", Der Spiegel, 2020-09-04. facts only, no text reused. spiegel.de

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Flag of the German Empire (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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